
Team-Xecuter's modding services subforum is a good place to find reputable people for this.
How to homebrew a xbox 360 install#
Alternatively, you could find someone who is willing to have your console shipped to them and install the mod for you, for a fee. Unlike most other console hacks of this generation and before, this is quite an involved process, and requires you to buy some proprietary hardware, and to have soldering equipment and technique. The oldest revision, the Xenon, is technically compatible, but takes several hours to boot each time so is only useful for recovery of a lost DVD key. The most recent hack for the 360, and the most comprehensive, being compatible with every model (except the most recent, the Winchester motherboard in the 360 E model) and every dashboard version released so far. These hacks are differentiated from drive mods and Optical Drive Emulators, which pretty much end at running pirates retail games, but CAN go online (with some precautions) and are talked about below. It is possible to play online with other people also using a hacked console, using XLink Kai, but as this works as a VPN like Hamachi, it limits you to LAN play. The downside to these hacks is that you can't connect to live - if you do, your console will be banned almost instantly. Features like integrated FTP server make it easy to manage contents on your console once you're set up. Either of these allows you to do do virtually anything with you 360, running retail games from internal and external HDD, pirating XBL content including DLC, running homebrews, even Linux if you're so inclined. FSD is tried and tested, but no longer in active development, while Aurora is actively going and shows promise. This details "full" hacks, the end result of whichis to run a custom dashboard, either Freestyle Dash, or the in-progress Aurora.
